Tim Kaine

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The power of U.S. vaccine diplomacy became very obvious to me when we were there.

So here again, we have seen China donating vaccines extensively to many countries on the continent, so yes, it is important the U.S. is doing so as well.

Thank you, Senator Hagerty, and to you and the chair of the subcommittee for holding this important hearing today on trade and investment opportunities.

What we heard was they really appreciate the U.S. donations of vaccines because they can buy vaccines from China or Russia.

We are not going to have a government that is going to really be a great ally of the United States if their population is very anti-U.S. in their public sentiment.

I place a real high emphasis on protecting freedom of the press.

I think it is a particularly important time to have the Summit for the Americas because of COVID, and vaccine diplomacy, and backsliding democracies, and street unrests in many nations.

If confirmed, I would look forward to working with the Government of Paraguay to strengthen Paraguay's commitment to Taiwan.

The U.S.-Taiwan connection is good for the United States, it is good for Taiwan, and it is good for Paraguay.

I think it is an increasingly destabilized Lebanon is a real problem for a lot of nations, including the United States, and we can work together with France on that.

I detect a troubling lack of interest in the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine.

I am really worried about human rights issues in Egypt and they affect a lot of Virginians.

Ecuador has had a tradition of an anti-U.S. Government for about 30 years.

Congratulations to this very finely qualified panel of nominees.

We really feel good about the quality of the U.S. vaccines. We are not 100 percent sure about the quality of the China and Russia vaccines.

I think this is the perfect opportunity for DRL to really center its work not just on election by election, as you say, but actually building and supporting with other partners the context in which those elections occur.

I couldn't say this about everybody I have worked in a political capacity, but I can say it about Rufus Gifford that he is going to be very, very even handed in his approach to the job.

These are opportunities where these issues of democracy and human rights should be front and center.

An election should have meaning.

The Pro Act basically maintains a requirement for secret ballot, except in this condition if an employer commits an unfair labor practice.

I think it is really important, people have a right to secret ballot.

I don't think it is unfair for somebody to say, well, I don't want to join the union, but for there to be an agency fee.

Thank you very much for the question. According to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only about 3.19 percent of Africans had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines as of July 21st.

I think it is a trend that maybe pre-dated my coming in 2013.